Open Discussion: Today we talked about several things, including recent power outages and creating screenshots.  There were three we spent more time on: fixing tables in mysql when the root account password is unknown. service mysql stop mysqld_safe –skip grant-tables… Read more2023-03-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had three new people join the group, and they introduced themselves and talked about their experiences with Linux.  We introduced ourselves and talked about favorite distros and reasons why a person may like “distro hopping.”  All was… Read more2023-02-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Since we didn’t have a presenter for CoolEdit we talked about it.  Fortunately Michael attended and was able to give us a live demo of the program.  In further discussion we noticed that it was more difficult than… Read more2023-01-14 Meeting

Open Discussion: The entire meeting consisted of an open discussion covering various topics, including: Options for using one keyboard and mouse for multiple computers, using a kvm switch or the program barrier. How CentOS, RedHat and Alma Linux are all… Read more2022-12-10 Meeting

Open Discussion: Gib led a discussion about cloud services and cloud service providers.  We also diverged the conversation to talk about system administrator jobs and the changing environment that better supports automation and virtual hardware. We’d like to thank Gib… Read more2022-10-08 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had an open discussion which included Pat talking about his new toys and Richard L talked about running Android in VirtualBox.

Open Discussion: While it’s true that we discussed Linux and its usage in various environments, we actually spent more time talking about energy, batteries, CO2 batteries, power generation and the replacement of lead acid batteries in data centers and vehicles. … Read more2022-08-13 Meeting

Open Discussion: Unfortunately Carl was under the weather and unable to attend the meeting, so there are no notes available from the discussion.

Open Discussion: We had a lively conversation about digital projectors and how the ambient light favored Carl but not Gib or Dennis. Then we chatted about internet service and various media sources, and had some suggestions for methods to avoid… Read more2022-06-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Immediately after saying hi to everyone, Rich had a question about how to mount an nfs share.  Long story short: use showmount -e192.168.1.55 then mount 192.168.1.55:/sharename /mnt. We then talked about various subjects like features and costs of… Read more2022-05-14 Meeting